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Lore Issue #51: DALL-E 3 Challenges Midjourney

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Nathan Lands
October 04, 2023

Good morning.

It’s been another crazy week in AI. We’ve been playing around with DALL-E 3 from OpenAI and it’s pretty incredible. It doesn’t look as visually stunning right out of the box as Midjourney, but it’s significantly better at details and text.

For the first time this year, it looks like Midjourney could really be challenged. With Midjourney costing $30 per month, a lot of people paying for ChatGPT Plus will probably use DALL-E 3 instead.

If you have ChatGPT Plus you might already have access to DALL-E 3. But if not, you can access it with Bing Image Creator.

As we head to the end of 2023, I’m more excited than ever for what’s to come. I expect Google Gemini, the ChatGPT competitor, to be released soon. And for GPT-5 to be coming sooner than expected.

Exciting times ahead.

  • Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame raised $237M in a late-stage funding round (Link)

  • AlphaSense raised $150M for its AI-driven market intelligence platform, now reaching a $2.5B valuation (Link)

  • Prins AI raised $100M to create digital identities for enterprises, brands, celebrities, and individuals (Link)

  • Stampli raised $61M to bring AI to accounts payable (Link)

  • Unitary raised $15M for AI-driven content moderation (Link)

  • Kolena raised $15M to build tools for testing AI models (Link)

  • Nexusflow raised $10.6M to build a conversational interface for security tools (Link)

  • Mythos Ventures raised $14M for AI VC firm to back ‘pro-social’ AI startups (Link)

  • AI Clearing raised $14M for its autonomous construction progress tracking and quality control platform (Link)

  • Luda raised $7M for AI training simulation (Link)

  • Invoke AI raised $3.75M to bring AI technology to the creative process (Link)

  • PandasAI raised €1M for its AI-powered data analysis assistant (Link)

Coming up:

  • OpenAI and Jony Ive are in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture (Link)

  • Character.AI is seeking funding at a valuation exceeding $5B (Link)

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Amazon has been working on a new search experience with AI-powered chat features, dubbed Project Nile.

Expected features include instant product comparisons, requests for more details and reviews, and recommendations based on search context and personal shopping data.

The confidential project is reportedly being tested internally and could launch in January 2024.

Hints found within Spotify’s code suggest that the company is exploring another AI application for its platform: AI-generated playlists.

This comes after the success of its AI-driven DJ feature earlier this year and incorporating AI-powered translation for podcasts last week.

With AI moving at rapid speeds, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek also warned that laws trying to regulate AI could quickly become obsolete.

Visa announced in a statement that it has set aside $100 million to invest in AI companies with the potential to shape how commerce is conducted in the future. 

Other news

  • Stability AI launched an experimental version of Stable LM 3B (Link)

  • A leaked Google ‘Switch to Pixel’ ad highlights Pixel 8 AI features (Link)

  • AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation (Link)

  • An AI clone of Tom Hanks was used without his permission to promote a dental plan (Link)

Dall-E 3 takes the world by storm

Lex Fridman and Mark Zuckerberg meet up in the multiverse

ChatGPT turns flowchart into code

Image to website with GPT-4 and Replit

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  • Effective Long-Context Scaling of Foundation Models by Meta (Link)

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  • Enable Language Models to Implicitly Learn Self-Improvement From Data (Link)

  • Qwen Technical Report (Link)

That's it!

See you next week!

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